Dr. William E. M. Lowe

former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Projects

RP9 B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

RP9
Social Media Networks and the Relationships between Citizens and Politics

RP8 B3 Democratic Multi-level Governance

RP8
The New Eurocrats: What Exposure to EU Policy Making Does to Public Administrations

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2016): Does Facebook increase political participation? Evidence from a field experiment. Information, Communication & Society, 19, issue 10, pp. 1465-1486. more
Theocharis, Yannis, William E. M. Lowe, Jan W. van Deth and Gema García Albacete (2015): Using Twitter to mobilize protest action: Online mobilization patterns and action repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, and Aganaktismenoi movements. Information, Communication & Society, 18, issue 2, pp. 202-220. more
Carey, Sabine C., Neil J. Mitchell and William E. M. Lowe (2013): States, the security sector, and the monopoly on violence: A new database on pro-government militias. Journal of Peace Research, 50, issue 2, pp. 249-258. more
Lowe, William E. M., and Kenneth Benoit (2013): Validating estimates of latent traits from textual data using human judgment as a benchmark. Political Analysis, 21, issue 3, pp. 298-313. more
Benoit, Kenneth, Michael Laver, William E. M. Lowe and Slava Mikhaylov (2012): How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis. Electoral Studies, 31, issue 3, pp. 605-608. more
Lowe, William E. M., Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov and Michael Laver (2011): Scaling policy preferences from coded units of political texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 26, issue 1, pp. 123-155. more

Papers / Reports

Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik, William E. M. Lowe and Christian van Stolk (2011): Towards NPM-ization of the post-communist state? Attitudes of public officials towards models of bureaucracy in Central and Eastern Europe. London more

Conference Presentations

Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2014): Does Facebook Increase Political Participation? Evidence from a Field Experiment. [110th APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 28th to August 31st, 2014] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2014): Does Facebook Increase Political Participation? Evidence from a Survey Experiment. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
García Albacete, Gema, Yannis Theocharis, William E. M. Lowe and Jan W. van Deth (2013): Social Media Mobilisation as a Prompt for Offline Participation? Analysing Occupy Wall Street Twitterers’ Offline Engagement with the Movement. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'Collective Action Online: Theories and Methods' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Lowe, William E. M. (2013): Measurement models for event data. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Theocharis, Yannis, William E. M. Lowe, Jan W. van Deth and Gema García Albacete (2013): Using Twitter to Mobilise Protest Action: Transnational Online Mobilisation Patterns and Action Repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados and Aganaktismenoi Movements. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'The Transnational Dimension of Protest: From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Lowe, William E. M. (2012): Everything you ever wanted to know about text scaling (but were afraid to ask). [SFB 884 Workshop: New Methodological Developments in Party Manifesto Research, Mannheim, October 11th, 2012] more
Lowe, William E. M., and Kenneth Benoit (2012): Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data. [ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford University, July 02nd to July 05th, 2012] more
Lowe, William E. M., and Kenneth Benoit (2011): Estimating uncertainty in quantitative text analysis. [MI Text Analysis Workshop, London, June 23rd to June 24th, 2011] more
Lowe, William E. M., and Kenneth Benoit (2011): Practical issues in text scaling models: Estimating legislator ideal points in multi-party systems using speeches. [Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 30th to May 03rd, 2011] more
Lowe, William E. M. (2011): Statistical issues with event data and the shape of the solutions. [Event Data Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, December 02nd to December 04th, 2011] more